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I know this is not really an urgent topic. But after trying for months, I want to ask if somebody knows how to design a new skin for my latest MediaWiki installation 1.19.0 .

I tried to copy/rename a default skin, renaming and updating the 2 PHP files in skins root with new class and lib names etc. But all what I get is a skin without any styles etc. I checked 2 internet pages for help, but they are showing the content for the skin and not what to do if I want to copy and modify a skin. I don't want to destroy one of my default skins and the help page for Skinning are old in here (it's ok because not many users want to change a skin).

Can please somebody give me a hint what I maybe do wrong and should do to start with a complete new skin or modifying a copied skin.

thanx a lot Mike

You should check out Daniel Friesen's Tutorial: Creating a custom skin for MediaWiki 1.18+.

i imagine what happened is that you copied the skin, changed the name, but didn't account for the fact that your new skin with the new name doesn't have entries in the ResourceLoader for it's styles and stuff.